A $1.5m legume research project led by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) is expected to boost Tasmania’s red meat industry by identifying and establishing resilient and productive perennial legume species to fill feed gaps.
The first Indigenous-led guidelines on how to best strengthen and share Indigenous knowledge in land and sea management has been published, distilling the expertise of over 100 contributors.
Farmsafe Australia has released the Safer Farms 2020 Agricultural Injury and Fatality Trend Report, noting 58 agriculture-related fatalities in the past 18 months.
Primary school-aged students across the country are set to learn about Australia’s farming and agriculture industries in a new Kids to Farms program that has just received $4.75m in funding.
A new ground-based field phenotyping platform will provide farmers across the country with the ability to measure the performance of their crops in challenging field conditions over an extended period of time.
A team of world experts has identified key biological constraints that limit individual plant productivity and crop yields, serving as a roadmap for future generations of crops which are resistant to the effects of climate change-induced drought.
The Australian National University (ANU) has been awarded a $3.4m grant to develop a monitoring, reporting and measuring framework for the Agriculture Biodiversity Stewardship Pilot Program.